Author: Ralph Rosen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classical, culture, society, satire, ancient, mockery, poetics, making
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2007-05-11
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0195309960
ISBN-13: 9780195309966

Making Mockery explores the dynamics of comic mockery and satire in Greek and Roman poetry, and argues that poets working with such material composed in accordance with shared generic principles and literary protocols. It encourages a synoptic, synchronic view of such poetry, from archaic iambus through Roman satire, and argues that if we can appreciate the abstract poetics of mockery that governs individual poets in such genres, we can we better understand how such poetry functioned in its own historical moment.Rosen examines in particular the various strategies deployed by ancient satirical

Authors:Dick Morris, Eileen Mcga,
Publisher: Harper Paperback
Keywords: companies, congress, serving, iran, washington, forei, lobbyists, radio, kill, media, obama, barack, mockery, terrorist, liberals, threats, fleeced
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0061547778
ISBN-13: 9780061547775

The runaway New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and USA Today bestseller! The facts At least 50 of the 425 terrorists released from GuantÁnamo have returned to the battlefield to fight our troops. Barack Obama has called for $1 trillion in tax increases over the next ten years—and dressed them up as tax cuts! Up to a quarter of all state pension funds in the United States are invested in companies that are helping Iran, Syria, North Korea, or the Sudan—for a total of nearly $200 billion. Big business, big government, big labor, big lobbyists

Authors:Dick Morris, Eileen Mcga,
Publisher: Harper
Keywords: iran, companies, congress, washington, lobbyists, scamming, governments, foreign, radio, kill, media, obama, barack, mockery, terrorist, liberals, threats, fleeced
Number of Pages: 337
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0061547751
ISBN-13: 9780061547751

Here are the facts: The United States has released 425 terrorists from Guantánamo, at least 50 of whom have returned to the battlefield to fight our troops. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both say they’re fiscally responsible. But each has called for $1 trillion in tax increases over the next ten years—and dressed them up as tax cuts! Mainstream Media has been given marching orders from the Society of Professional Journalists: never refer to "Islamic terrorists" or "Muslim terrorists." And they are obeying! Whenever our brave agents disrupt a terror plot, The media dismisses